The main offender in the current Labour Party episode is Ken Livingstone, who is NOT a refugee, a foreigner, a Muslim, or anything other than of white British descent for generations.

I think that there has been some increase in anti-Semitism on the left, largely as a spin-off of the Iraq war. Opposition to the war (which I have opposed since day one) has occasionally involved strange bedfellows, whereby non-left groups opposed to the war, which are sometimes highly CT-ish including anti-Semitism, have joined forces with the left. Sometimes lying down with dogs has led to getting up with fleas!

But there has always been some anti-Semitism on the left: in and before the 80s, it was often linked to influences stemming ultimately from the Soviet Union (and anti-Semitism has always been a big problem in Russian politics, whether on Right, Left or neither).

But what about all the anti-Semitism on the Right? What about the Tories choosing to belong to the group in the EU Parliament that is shared with right-wing (and often very anti-Semitic) Poles, rather than the mainstream Euro-Conservative group? I don't think that they've chosen this through anti-Semitism, but it certainly implies some tolerance of anti-Semitism. What about all the xenophobic dog-whistles against ethnically Jewish Ed Miliband, his family and how he looked when eating a bacon sandwich? If the right-wing media hadn't indulged in all these smears, we would probably now have an ethnically-Jewish Labour Prime Minister!!!! - remember that when you imply that anti-Semitism is a left-wing phenomenon. What about former Tory MP Aidan Burley, who got into trouble in France over a Nazi-themed stag party? Or the students in the Oxford University Conservative Association, who got drunk at one of their meetings and sang a vile parody of 'Jingle Bells', all about dashing through the Reich killing lots of K-words? Future Cabinet members, if the past is anything to go by!

And that's just the Tories. UKIP are far, far worse.

The strongest campaigner at the moment for admitting Syrian refugee children is Jewish Labour peer Alf Dubs - and one of his motivations is due to his having been a child refugee at age 6, rescued from the Nazis by the Kindertransport.

Like almost all ethnic Jews in Europe, I have refugees among my ancestors and relatives; and the thought of using anti-Semitism among NON-refugees as an excuse for sending refugees back to their deaths revolts me!!! You are spitting on my ancestors' graves as far as I'm concerned.

All countries have inevitable limits on how many refugees/migrants they can accept. All countries must have checks on the genuineness of asylum-seekers. But please do not use the Jews as an excuse for having racist policies on who can be accepted!!!

there's a reason I'm not part of the right...

Yes, by all means, there must be a strong vetting process but families and especially children must be admitted. And it's BECAUSE of our shared history that I feel this way. Unless you have prove ALL the Syrian refugees are terrorists, then it most certainly is comparable to the St. Louis - you want to deny people based only on their religion - that should be unacceptable to all Jews.

As far as the anti-semitism on the left is concerned, I agree it has become a much bigger problem on the left than I ever thought possible. What's happening on college campuses should chill everyone. I can post article after article on this - I have a friend with a son at Oberlin that is strongly considering pulling him from school because of crap like this:

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/03/oberlin_college_professors_ant_1.html

When I see people using the first amendment argument - I want to scream. The first ONLY protects you from the government. Nobody is OWED a job and to find out there are consequences when you openly post on social media shouldn't be a shock to anyone. I have no problem likening this to a professor showing support for the fucking klan. Unacceptable and worthy of firing. PERIOD.

What happened to this student:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/19/berkeley-s-swastika-problem-are-america-s-liberal-colleges-breeding-anti-semitism.html

Simply unacceptable. Because she was a supporter of Israel, Berkeley thought it was fitting to keep her from student government. Not acceptable.

Unless the left takes a long hard look at all of this, they're going to continue to lose Jewish voices and Jewish votes. Ignoring the rampant anti semitism in Europe and right here in the US is a recipe for a dying party. I wont let that happen without a fight.

things, and corrupt societies, stuff that was just CT.

A large portion of the Muslim world indeed DOES, not in CT, but in actuality, hold objectionable views that endanger our society and peoples already here. It's not in question. Views that can be found here, here, and here.

Therefore, its not comparable. This isn't about whether something should be based on religion or not. Its about people's safety. Boatloads of Syrian Muslim refugees coming from a part of the world where anti-Semitic, anti-America, Islamist ideas are common, is a danger. Its the ideas that large amounts of the group hold. It endangers our society.

The thought that Jews ever endangered anything was bullshit.

I got no problem with individual Muslims coming. Muslims in the US today are fine because they're forced to interact with different people. Once you start putting massive amounts in, they'll form enclaves, becoming insular like in the UK and Europe, and they'll form a voting bloc politicians will pander to. The anti-Semitism they'll hold will be coopted by Mondoweiss crowd, etc.

that Europe does - and never will. I know what our vetting process is all about and I think it's fine. Single men aren't even eligible and it takes up to 2 years to be admitted. What's the difference between imbeciles thinking that Jews had secret cabals and people thinking all Muslims are terrorists? Both are being tagged because of their religion. I do agree that American Muslims have assimilated much better but that's because we give them the opportunity to - Europe does not.

accept a few, things might go fine, but then they start voting and campaigning to people who can vote (if the migrants don't have citizenship yet) and given the power of the far-left, there would undoubtedly be more. Couple that with the fact that the couples would have children, and so on.

Even if both are being looked at with religion as the first thing, fact is for me at least, this is about personal, physical, and democratic safety, not keeping some religious balance or demographic in this country.

Like I said, Muslims currently integrate here because they cannot be insular due to the much smaller Muslim population than in Europe; start making enclaves around the country, it could change. Its bad enough Dearborn has the azan ringing on loudspeakers in parts of it every morning. But at least they know they have to interact with non-Muslims outside of one city.

of racism would be lobbed at me. But yea, they can come to, in my book.